The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2980
• Sections: 5

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st February 1998.

(2) In this Order “the 1996 Order ” means the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 (Designated Countries and Territories) Order 1996 .

(3) This Order extends to England and Wales only.

Section 2

Schedule 1 to the 1996 Order (countries and territories designated for the purposes of sections 39 and 40 of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) shall be amended by the insertion, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order, of the countries and territories specified in the Schedule to this Order.

Section 3

In Schedule 2 to the 1996 Order (Modifications of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994) for sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 8 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:

(c) for subsection (1)(c) there shall be substituted the following:

(c) either an external confiscation order has been made in the proceedings or it appears to the High Court that there are reasonable grounds for believing that such an order may be made in them.

Section 4

A like amendment to the amendment in article 3 above shall be made to section 25(1)(c) of the Act as set out in Schedule 3 (The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 as modified) to the 1996 Order.

Section 5

The Appendix to the 1996 Order, which describes when proceedings are instituted in a designated country, shall be amended by substituting for the entry for “Australia” the following: